Dive Bomber

Skylandershas explored plenty of avenues with its characters. The series has focused giants that can light up and it featured heroes that could be customized. Activision’s developers have made the game more Pokemon-like with the ability to capture enemies and make them fight for player. But the latest entry to the series, Skylanders SuperChargers, thinks outside the box.

Instead of basing the new series around characters with new powers, the team at Vicarious Visions focused on vehicles. These are toys with moving parts like a cars with wheels, submarines with rudders and planes with propellers that encourage play outside the game. Inside the console the developer built a narrativecampaign, in which Kaos builds another doomsday weapon called the Sky Eater, which devours Skylands. Master Eon recruits a special team of pilots called the SuperChargers (not be confused with the San Diego football team) to stop this nefarious plot.Continue Reading →